Blog Posts: December 2012

I'm happy to announce that after four years of development GPars, the Groovy concurrency library, has just reached its 1.0 mark. A fresh and crispy GPars 1.0.0 is now ready for you to grab or download and use on your projects. Also, the up-coming Groovy releases will bundle GPars 1.0.

Compared to the previous release, 1.0 brings several performance enhancements, considerable API updates, polished documentation and numerous functionality improvements, mostly in the dataflow area. Please, check out the What's new section of the user guide for the details. Full release notes are also available.

I would like to use this opportunity to thank all the Groovy people, who have over time contributed in one way or another to the success of GPars. It is my honour to be part of such a helpful and encouraging community. In particular, I would like to thank my colleague GPars commiters, namely Paul King, Dierk Koenig, Alex Tkatchman and Russel Winder, who we've been consistently pushing the project forward and without whom it would hardly ever get this far. I also greatly appreciate the support we received from Guillaume Laforge, the Groovy supreme commander. Thank you all gentlemen!

We are almost there. The 1.0 release is just round the corner. To ensure that 1.0 meets your quality expectations we first prepared a release candidate to test the waters. To take GPars for a test ride, please download or grab it at the usual places, check out the release notes and let us know if something is missing.